(1) Gassman's swan song, or serata d'addio, the farewell performance which Italian actors of distinction were always expected to give, began in 1996.
(2) Eventually, Moore led his men up to the Royal Box to receive the gold Jules Rimet trophy from the Queen, and the slow, ecstatic lap of honour began “Ee-aye-addio, we’ve won the Cup,” sang the crowd, as Moore threw it in his arc above his head and caught it again.
Adieu
Definition:
(interj. & adv.) Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
(n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(2) 1.35am GMT Email Resins Man bids us adieu: Well I was two innings too early.
(3) The Liverpool team coach snaked out of Goodison Road with police vans for an escort and irate Evertonians lining the route to bid it adieu.
(4) However, I have chosen today to bid adieu to this profession that I have loved so much.
(5) Vidic and Giggs were on the bench, alongside the 21-year-old defender, Michael Keane, while Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra were not in the 18, and so were maybe denied a last home adieu as each may depart this summer.
(6) His task was to get himself out of a hole of his own making on Britain’s potential exit from the European Union, woo back Tory voters attracted by Ukip and manage those of his increasingly militant backbenchers whose goal is to say adieu to EU membership.
(7) Cannes contenders Grace of Monaco (director Olivier Dahan, the opening night film); Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas); Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello); Kis Uykusu (Nuri Bilge Ceylan); Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne); Mommy (Xavier Dolan); Captives (Atom Egoyan); Adieu au Langage (Jean-Luc Godard); The Search (Michel Hazanavicius); The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones); Futatsume No Mado (Naomi Kawase); Mr Turner (Mike Leigh); Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach); Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller); Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher); Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako); Relatos Salvajes (Damian Szifron); Leviafan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
(8) The cover of Monday's influential news weekly Der Spiegel declares "Adieu Greece", arguing that it is time to kick the country out of the euro.